We took Matilda to Children's Fairyland yesterday.
Oh! I loved Children's Fairyland! Yay!
I may still have a magic key in a box somewhere at my mom's.
I said I'm sorry. I've made mistakes, but fear was never one of them.
Lilah ,'Conviction (1)'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Strega - Jul 20, 2008 5:34:03 pm PDT #8635 of 10003
Jesse - Jul 20, 2008 5:43:03 pm PDT #8636 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh hey, I heard a rumor today that the commentary on the Dr Horrible DVD will also be musical. A musical called "Commentary."
Sue - Jul 20, 2008 5:44:37 pm PDT #8637 of 10003
hip deep in pie
Oh hey, I heard a rumor today that the commentary on the Dr Horrible DVD will also be musical. A musical called "Commentary."
I've heard that too. I've heard there's a regular commentary, and a muscial one.
Jesse - Jul 20, 2008 5:45:34 pm PDT #8638 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ah, wikipedia says so, too:
Planned DVD extras include Commentary! - The Musical, with entirely new numbers performed by the cast and crew.
sumi - Jul 20, 2008 5:47:05 pm PDT #8639 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
How fun!
tommyrot - Jul 20, 2008 6:05:54 pm PDT #8640 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
This is one of the most... amazing (that's not quite the right word, but I can't think of a good adjective) photos ever taken.
It's the photo of the body of a woman who jumped off the Empire State Building. The bizarre thing about the photo is how peaceful she appears. She landed on top of of a car, crushing its roof in, but it looks like she's just sleeping on the car.
The photo is not gory. From 1947.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 20, 2008 6:13:07 pm PDT #8641 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I think that was in Life magazine (or possibly Look), and, yeah, completely eerie how serene she looks.
JZ - Jul 20, 2008 7:55:27 pm PDT #8642 of 10003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
tommyrot, I know exactly which picture you mean -- it's in a huge book of the best of Life's photography. Possibly this book. We have a copy up at my grandparents' house at South Lake Tahoe; I spent so many summers and winters poring over all the pictures in that book, including that serene young woman.
The opening credits of Mad Men, with the male silhouette tumbling down the side of an impossibly tall building and crumpling into a pose of perfect false serenity always reminds me of that photo.
P.M. Marc - Jul 20, 2008 8:05:22 pm PDT #8643 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
JZ, my mother has that book, too, and that picture, the melty-head Japanese soldier, and the Marilyn-as-other-actresses pictures are the ones that always stuck with me.
JZ - Jul 20, 2008 8:36:48 pm PDT #8644 of 10003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, yes, Marilyn as Theda Bara!
And the wee European orphan ecstatically hugging his new shoes, and the Asian woman (Vietnamese?) keening over her beloved, so wild with grief there's a stream of drool falling from her mouth onto the body, and she is so raw and so lost in her sorrow that the line of drool just wrecks you. And the young hotel worker kneeling over RFK.
Aside from Marilyn, it's a pretty bleak book. But astonishing.